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02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

Gupta commented that responses to the question of whether immigration policies should be more welcoming to low-skilled workers assumed that the issue was limited to the United States. Gupta reminds us that it could just as well have... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Jul 2013
News

Building Great Schools around Great Teachers

of advanced learning in other professions, I was shocked to learn that nothing exists in the United States for similarly positioned teachers," Klemmer said. Two years of research led him to open the National... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

and purviews. This leaves online small business lenders to be governed by an expensive and time-consuming patchwork of state oversight, often with inconsistent rules that can confine online lending to state-by-state silos, undermining what is an otherwise View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

possible that Walmart is just too big to pursue its business model in the longer-term future? This is not a trivial question. Walmart, as the world's largest private organization, has a bigger population than several United View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Mind in Action . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. Dobbin, Frank. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Dunlavy, Colleen A. "Organizing... View Details

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

Rohingya Refugee: Past, Genocide, Future. Preparing for refugees of climate change The study’s results might inform new ways to help the more than 70 million people who have been displaced globally by conflict and natural disasters as of the end of 2018, according to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

25 Mar 2025
Other Presentation

Louis E. Caldera on the Panama Canal and DEI Under Trump's Administration

By: Louis Caldera and June Carolyn Erlick

Louis E. Caldera, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, chaired the Panama Canal Commission the year the Canal was returned to Panama, 1999. He was also the first (and only) Latino to serve as Secretary of the Army. He talks on issues ranging from President... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; History; National Security; Diversity; Panama; United States

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01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

President Hoover famously said in October, 1930, “the fundamental assets of the nation have been unimpaired." How was it possible that the economy was breaking down when the fundamental assets of the nation, as he put it, were sound? Upon... View Details

31 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

organizations include Enron, USAID, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bain & Co., United Technologies Corp, and International Resources Group. Rick graduated with a BS cum laude in engineering from USMA West Point and is a decorated Vietnam... View Details

18 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

Organization Katie Urban, Digital Strategy & Communications Specialist, CRC Companies LLC Describe your organization in three to five sentences. CRC Companies LLC (CRC) is a national real estate development and investment firm with... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Jun 1998
News

Short Takes

performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

Portrait Project

Ferran Ayala

of those people lack the means to run as I have. I have found shelter in a nation that embraces meritocracy; a nation that has allowed me to reach my dreams and keep dreaming ever higher. I want to keep... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time, but Europe (even the View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

constraints on the autonomy of firms. The book has several case studies that explore this issue. The instances when firms could really dictate to governments, as when the United Fruit Company orchestrated the CIA overthrow of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

01 Dec 2006
News

Rowing Upstream

not-so-pretty picture of a frustrating and baffling decline in performance by the varsity boat at the United States Military Academy. Polzer, whose teaching and research focus on organizational behavior, leadership, and teams, sees many... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: John Doerr

returns based on innovation and intellectual property. It's more than the Internet, more than Silicon Valley. At the moment, we're in a full-fledged tech recession in the United States, with scary implications for the global economy.... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Bibliography - The Human Factor - – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

1998. Mayo, Elton. The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization. New York: Macmillan, 1933. National Industrial Conference Board. Employee Magazines in the United States. New York: View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

A new space race—one fueled more by commercial conquest than intergalactic domination—is charting solutions to pressing problems in national security, climate change, and communication. With costs poised to drop and innovation on the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

the 1960s, he felt himself drawn toward nonprofit activities. Upon graduating from HBS, Lazarus took the advice of a classmate and joined the Peace Corps in Panama, where he worked to develop a business training and education program at a Catholic university. His... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

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